Medieval music and the art of memory

Medieval music and the art of memory /

"This challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Anna Maria Busse
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
500-1499
Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Music > 15th century > History and criticism.
Composition (Music) > History.
Memory.
Musique > 500-1400 > Histoire et critique.
Musique > 15e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Composition (Musique) > Histoire.
Mémoire.
Composition (Music)
Music
Gedächtnis.
Komposition > Musik
Mittelalter
Musik
Muziek.
Muziekwerken.
Herinnering.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the first great dead white male composer
  • The construction of the memorial archive
  • Tonaries : a tool for memorizing chant
  • Basic theory treatises
  • The memorization of organum, discant, and counterpoint treatises
  • Compositional process in polyphonic music
  • Compositional process and transmission of Notre Dame polyphony
  • Visualization and the composition of polyphonic music.

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